Re:Squats can boost brain activity [video]
by stayfrosty420 on Friday September 10, 2021 @07:32AM
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Did you read your sources?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hatha_yoga
lol
Re:Squats can boost brain activity [video]
by andrepd on Friday September 10, 2021 @07:51AM
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Sure, but we're talking about physical health here. The religious/spiritual/mental thing is separate. You can also meditate while you lift, no? :)
Re:Squats can boost brain activity [video]
by playing_colours on Friday September 10, 2021 @09:00AM
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There are many kinds of meditation. You can try being mindful while lifting iron, so at least you can practice mindfulness mediation.
While yoga-as-meditation seems to have a long in India:
* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yoga#History
Yoga-as-exercise was a much more recent phenomenon started by Westerners:
* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yoga_as_exercise
> Goldberg is the author of The Goddess Pose: The Audacious Life of Indra Devi, the Woman Who Helped Bring Yoga to the West. Her book traces the modern Western practice of yoga to a Russian woman named Indra Devi, who was born in 1899 with the birth name Eugenia Peterson.
* https://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2015/06/01/4112024...
* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indra_Devi
Regardless, if it gets people off the couch, then to a certain extent who cares which is "better": the perfect is the enemy of the good.